OK, I did it. I pulled the trigger this week on moving Arizona up to No. 1.

It wasn’t so much about Michigan State falling as it was about Arizona, a complete team, having a better résumé to this point than just about anyone. The Wildcats have guard play, post play, great coaching, a true road win over a San Diego State team I have ranked No. 22 and, of course, last week’s win over Duke.

Michigan State is still just fine, but has yet to play a true road game and just hasn’t been a clear cut No. 1 in my eyes. Being out-rebounded multiple times already this season and Gary Harris’ ankle still concern me a little for the Spartans, although I suspect Harris will be just fine and return to All-American form (I selected him as a preseason AP All-American).

As always, let me know where I screwed up or where I might be right by contacting my on Twitter @GeoffGrammer or email me at ggrammer@abqjournal.com.

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About Geoff

He is a native of New Mexico who has covered both news (crime and courts beats primarily) and sports (college football, basketball and high school sports primarily) at several newspapers, magazines and websites since graduating with a degree in Journalism from New Mexico State University in 2001. He joined the Albuquerque Journal in August 2012.

He has received several state, regional and national newswriting awards for feature writing (in both sports and news), sports writing, general news writing, breaking news coverage, investigative reporting and courts reporting.